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Today I’m 21 Years Old

I was talking to my brother today, and he asked, ‘how long have you been in Nepal again? Like, 1,5 years or so?’
I laughed, and told him it had only been 8 months.

Eight months!

And I don’t blame him, because if you’d ask me, I would want to say the same. Eight months is a number, but it feels like I’ve been here for a year or two, at least.

I’ve never been good with things like time and distance and quantity. To me, it’s all equally abstract.

If you ask me about distances I will make a guess, and pretend like I know what I’m talking about – but 500 meters or 2 kilometers is all the same in my head.

I have no clue about big amounts of anything.
A car is heavy, a cruise ship is VERY heavy.
10.000 or 20.000 euros really is not different. Just a lot of money.

I know my age because I know my year of birth, and a new year is added every 365 days, but the number 24 truly doesn’t mean anything to me. I could be 21 or 30, for all I know.

So I really think we should be able to handle those things more loosely, depending on how you feel.
How old are you? I feel like 20 today, so I’m 20.
How far is the Netherlands from Nepal? Today you’ll have to travel around the world three times in order to get there, but tomorrow it might only be a 20 minute busride away.
How long have you lived in Nepal? A day, a year, a lifetime. Depends on when you ask me.

Anyway. I will board an airplane in 3 days.
And according to the calendar I will be home in less than 3 weeks. If you’d ask me though, it would be tomorrow :-)